Is Trump Signaling He’s Ready to Back Down?

First Read sees President Trump’s backing down on giving his State of the Union address as a possible sign of progress.

“It is a very rare move for Trump to back down on anything, and it suggests we could be closer to solving the shutdown than we were a day ago. In fact, Trump backing down here — instead of marching ahead to give a State of the Union address somewhere else — is what you’d do if you were trying to get out of this mess.”

“Trump also acknowledging this, via the Washington Post, also is a sign we could be closer to resolving the shutdown: Sources in the room told us that Trump pointed out that shutting down the government costs more than building the wall, ‘so this is kind of stupid and every day this goes on the cost gets higher,’ [the Heritage Foundation’s Stephen] Moore added, paraphrasing Trump.”